The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-07
The Held by the Enemy
Personnel.
DAILY is NEXT ON THE LIST
Salaries OF q High Glass Company
Days OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Nores

Lockwood, manager OF the Held Dy Inc
Enemy Company, sat in the Theatre
box Office yesterday, making up his
weeks salary list.
"Do actors get more, or less, on the
road than they do for city engage
ment?" asked HERALD man who stood
watching the envelopes receive their
fat enclosures.
LESS for summer tours" was the re-
ply of the manager. Actors who get
from SIPS to $3.50 a week for
winter engagements, will gladly go
out on the road in summer for $50 or
500; because the theatres in the big
cities all close up in the summer, and
actors have nothing to do but get
through the hot season the best way
they can"
what are leading mems salariesf
What, for instance, will Fanny Daven-
port pay Mr.. MCDOWELL
81 should say about S125 week.
Manteil, whom she used to have, got
$500, but, of course, he was in extra de-
mand."
"Who are your highest priced peo-
ple2"
"Mr. Miller among the gentlemen,
Miss Allen among the ladies. Miller
goes to the Lyceum next year at SIPS
week. stiff figure for city engage
ment; Miss Allen goes out as leading
lady for the Hoodman Blind Company,
and gets S175 a week and her mothers
travelling expenses paid"
"a standard actor like Mr.. Allen-I
suppose you have to pay him just as
much for the small part he plays, as
you would if he were leading charac
teri"
"Oh, yes, we have to pay him rather
more for this sort of character in fact,
because of the blacking up; most people
hate that"
Miss Dillon is a pretty high-priced
artistic, is she not7"
"Wen, she gets a very good figure;
success makes them jump. L can tell
you. Miss Dillon has been pegging away
for good while but until she played
Susan she never made a particular hit
and was con tent to do with moderate
salary. But her success in this piece
has doomed her and doomed her salary
as well, and now she gets good offer
from the Lyceum, to whom she goes
next year"
"What is the cost of company like
yours?"
"Our weekly salary list amounts to
$3.50, to say nothing of transportation;
we pay, of course, railroad fares; the
people pay their own hotel bills.
You will have quite a number of
gaps to fill up in your company, will
you uOtP"
YES. but we have them mostly
filed. Mabel Bert takes Miss Aliens
place: we are negotiating for a man to
lake Miller's part, but have concluded
on no one yet. We wanted Eben
Plympton very much; in fact, Mr.. Gil
lette had him in his eye ali the time he
was writing the character. 1t is a part
that everyone can't do, and part that
some wont do. Why2 Because unless
he is extremely well done. the spy takes
the shine off him. Originally, the spy
was a much longer part, but Gillette
saw he was carrying too much of the
sympathy of the audience away from
the hero, and he cut him down.
the house with him in the second
act. Mr.. Neil, who takes the spy, leaves
US to go out with Fred Bryton in For
given, to whom he plays lead. Mr..
Mcdowell, as you have said, goes to
Fanny Davenport; we have his place
filed. MIR. Allen may remain with US.
He is an expensive artist, but an excel
lent actor"
Mr.. Lockwood was immensely pleased
with the outcome of the Salt Lake en-
gagement. His advance agent, Mr..
Hayman, said if they took 81 200 they
would be content. Their receipts have
run nearer 81 600, the matinee yester-
day being large and snowy, and the
| house last night, while not as heavy as
its Predecessors, phenomenal, consider
ing the piece was on its fourth repre-
sentation.
BEHIND THE FooTLIGHTs.
A curious thing it is to stand behind
the scenes and witness piece like Held
by the Enemy manipulated. 1t re-
minds one involuntarily of stripping off
the outer coverings OF a mans nature
| and gazing IN upon the secret springs,
motives and agencies that prompt his
actions; you can't keep exclaimiug with
some one or other. Hollow, hollow, hoI.
lowl You stand within few feet of
the people on the stage. You watch
their faces as they give vent to the
words which are thrilling the sea of
upturned countenances before them.
You see Miss Allen as she clasps her
hands to herthead in agony, yawn be-
hind their shelter. The officers. as
| they sit in solemn court martial. their
faces set at the stern work before them,
wink at the gas man. We ran npon
young Neill, just as he lay himself upon
| the stretcher to be carried lifeless by
the four supers. Maybe you think it
isn't hot under this blanket?" he saws
to the reporter, 80 long" and the
next moment he is waited upon the
stage, and the most thrilling situation
in Gillette's play begins. The illusion is
torn rudely away from the bonn
bardment effect. As the bomb
is thrown upon the. stage a man
in the entrance fires two horse pistols
into a flour barrel, and the poor. duped
audience think the explosion came from
the bomb. The cannons' opening roar
is q bog banging q base drum, That
very realistic effect, the imitation of
the clatter OF horses hoofs upon the
pavement, is made rs the orderly on his
knees outside. He has 8 couple of
blocks lined with iron, fastened to his
hands; with these he beats a tattoo
upon huge block of stone covered with
a thin strip of India rubber. decreasing